This is the last set of my “Theses” about Creation. I hope they have stirred some thought. You can read the previous posts here: part 1; part 2; part 3. 16. This doctrine leaves room for man, as he comes from the hand of the Creator, to be responsible to believe God and to obey God. Whatever the effects of sin, this is man as God created him to be. The obedience of man to the good dictates of God …
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Here are some studies you may have missed: The Worldview of the Wisdom Books Who Are “The Sons of God” in Genesis 6? The Divine Logos (1) The Divine Logos (2) The Divine Logos (3) Ezekiel’s Temple: Premillennial Achille’s Heal? Creation, Fall, Redemption: The Theological Motif of the Bible The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament (1) The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament (2) Law, Gospel and Faith …
I have been discussing the importance of “thinking God’s thoughts after Him.” Here are some thoughts which pertain to this important subject: Some Christians allow contemporary thinking to push out the Biblical Worldview. For example, someone recently wrote that rainbows are not objective realities. Now we grant that no one can find the end of a rainbow. but that is not the same as asserting that rainbows aren’t there. The colors of a rainbow are “there” just as much as …
You can read the previous articles in the series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. In these posts I have tried to demonstrate how the kind of hermeneutical processes involved in bringing an individual to espouse dispensational premillennial eschatology will cause him (or her) NOT to espouse 5-Point Calvinism, or its companion, regeneration prior to faith. I have done this by using a grid or filter for checking doctrines based on comparing theological propositions with the Bible. I believe that I …
Today I heard about the death of John Stott. In view of the man’s stature and his personal influence on me, I think this deserves a few words. John R. W. Stott’s name is one of the most familiar in the broad reaches of “Christianity.” This notoriety extends beyond evangelicalism and into neo-orthodox and neo-liberal churches. His name is associated with several important movements, publications and declarations of the past fifty years, including the Lausanne Covenant on world missions, the …
Review of Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites…and Other Lies You’ve Been Told, by Bradley R. E. Wright, PhD, Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2010, 249 pages, pbk I am not one to read many books written by sociologists. The occasional work by Os Guinness and the obligatory few by Peter Berger are about it. I recall breezing through one of Barna’s books about ten years back. Quite honestly, though such reading has been profitable, I have come away wondering just how much I …
This is the third and final part of this review article. Here are the links to Parts One and Two. I have not bothered to write out a list of errata as they can be found in other people’s reviews and I wanted to get this review done today. At several places I thought I had read the same material before. This feeling of deja vu has the author to blame for it. Suffice it to say, the editing could …
This continues my review of John Sailhamer’s important book. Time restraints mean I shall need at least one further post to finish the full review. Please bear with me. Part One of the review is here: link Part Two continued… Sailhamer sees the four main poems of the Pentateuch as strong indicators of the fact that the author has not abandoned the messianic hope of Genesis 3:15 or the covenant with Abraham. He teases out several examples of constructive uses …
Review of John H. Sailhamer, The Meaning of the Pentateuch: Revelation, Composition and Interpretation, Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2010, 632 pp., pbk. John Sailhamer has been writing on the Pentateuch for many years. He is the author of The Pentateuch as Narrative, Genesis Unbound, and the EBC entry on “Genesis”. He is held in high regard by his evangelical peers, especially for his work in this area, and this book was eagerly awaited. It is hard to know where to …
Here are five more of my 20 Theses on the importance of the Christian doctrine of Creation. Parts One and Two can be read here and here. 11. The Doctrine of a Creation to be explored and understood encouraged the modern scientific process, which was begun in the Renaissance and made explicit in the Reformation, with its insistence that daily work, however menial, was to be done to God’s glory. This dignified and legitimated many areas including many scientific pursuits. …
